The narrative of John Doy, of Lawrence, Kansas ...: Printed for the author.

A POT-VALIANT MISSOURIAN.
of inebriety known as "crying drunk," amused us all night
by his lamentations over the disgrace to his family caused
by his being in prison with the abolitionists. Considering
him fair game, we told him, through the grated door of our
cell, that his imprisonment would go down to posterity as
a historical fact, and that the record of his family's disgrace would never be obliterated. This of course aggravated his sufferings, and, while cursing us, he was particularly savage against De Bard, the jailer, who-had locked
himn up. His soliloquizing ran after this fashion:
"Boo-hoo! Boo-hoo! I'll cut that dog-gauned De Bard's
throat; he's locked me up here with these dog-gauned
abolitionists. He'll stand a right smart chance of gitting
his throat cut. I'se seen heaps better dead men nor him.
Boo-hoo! Boo-hoo! What shall I do? I'se come up here
to guard these dog-gauned abolitionists, and here I'se put
in with them, and they'll put me into their dog-gauned history. Boo-hoo I Boo-hoo!"
Charles intimated.to him that he was probably put in with
us as not being a sound pro-slavery man, but a suspected
abolitionist. In the meanwhile he had been insulting the
colored man, Pinks, in the hall, and had been knocked over
by him.
"An abolitionist! Oh! thar's no better pro-slavery
family in this'ere State! We's from old Tennessee. Boo hoo! And here I'se put in with the dog-gauned abolition ists. I shan't git my two dollars for guarding the dog gauned rascals. I'll be dog-gauned if I don't fill up the
jail with files and saws; see if I don't. And then I'll cut
that dog-gauned De Bard's throat in the morning. I'se seen
heaps better men nor him have their throats cut. Boo-hoo!
Boo-hoo!" and so on through the night.
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